symbiotic

Corals exist in a symbiotic partnership with a special type of marine plant - a species of algae - which lives inside the coral, providing it with food and giving it its bright colour.

Corals exist in a symbiotic partnership with a special type of marine plant - an algae - which lives inside the coral, providing it with food and giving it its bright colour.

Starting as like-minded college students at Western Washington University in 2012, the pair have become a symbiotic partnership known worldwide that lives in the space between rave culture and arena pop.

Microbiologists have long known that those animals capable of digesting lignin -- like termites -- host specialized, symbiotic colonies of microbes in their guts that do the work of breaking the lignin down for them.

Interestingly, the symbiotic bacteria don't seem to depend on the lucinids.